Welcome to R-Ladies Rome

RLadies Quarto

February 13, 2023

Disclaimer

All R-Ladies Rome talks will be recorded and posted on Youtube

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Materials for tonight

Watch & Learn

All materials will be shared during the presentation: RLadies Quarto.

Do & Learn

Make sure you have the latest R and RStudio or to download here: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

We will be using the {tidyverse}, {palmerpenguins}, and {gt} packages. Everything else (including Quarto) comes with RStudio.
In case you need to install Quarto CLI with an older version of RStudio please follow this link: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/

RladiesQuarto_pkgs <- c("tidyverse","palmerpenguins","gt")
install.packages(RladiesQuarto_pkgs)

More resources:

quarto tip a day: https://mine-cetinkaya-rundel.github.io/quarto-tip-a-day/

Welcome Everyone!

This is the second event of the R-Ladies Rome chapter. I am Federica Gazzelloni one of the organizers of the chapter along with Nina Deliu here. We are joined by Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, who will be the speaker tonight.

Benvenuti! Questo è il secondo evento per questo gruppo RLadies Rome. Io sono Federica Gazzelloni una delle organizzatrici insieme a Nina Deliu. Siamo in compagnia della Professoressa Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, la nostra relatrice per questa sera. Tutto il materiale verrà condiviso durante la presentazione se volete potete dare un’occhiata alla documentazione relativa a Quarto di cui parleremo.

What is R-Ladies?

R-Ladies is a global organization with the mission of promoting the R language for empowering women at all user levels by building a collaborative global network.
It is a gender diversity friendly community founded in 2012 by Gabriela de Queiroz in San Francisco.
R-Ladies is now a world-wide organization with 206 chapters and more than 93,000 members globally. For more information, please visit rladies.org

R-Ladies Rome is a local chapter of R-Ladies Global
We will meet once a month for talking about hot topics in the R language
You are welcome to provide suggestions, comments and get in touch to be part of this chapter.

2023 fall schedule

January: MLOps with Vetiver, speaker Julia Silge
February: RLadies Quarto, speaker Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
March: featuring Isabella Velasquez from Posit PBC
April: TBD
May: featuring Jon Harmon from R4DS Community Learning
June: TBD

Founder of the chapter is Claudia Vitolo. She is also a Co-founder of R-Ladies Global
Organizer of the chapter is Federica Gazzelloni
Co-Organizer of the chapter is Nina Deliu

Would you like to be involved?
Would you like to propose a talk, or discuss about something in particular?

Get in touch here: rome@rladies.org

Twitter: @rladiesrome

GitHub: meetup-presentations_rome

LinkedIn: @R-LadiesRome

We have a Job Board to share with our members interesting openings.

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Tonight presentation

Tonight speaker is Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, for those of you who do not know about her…

Mine is Professor of Practice at Duke University and Developer Educator at Posit PBC formerly RStudio. Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy. She is the winner of the 2021 Robert V. Hogg Award for For Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics. She is the creator and maintainer of datasciencebox.org, also she teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera. Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make lower barriers educational products, which are designed to make learning accessible to a wider range of students, regardless of their background or prior experience.

In this meetup, we will be learning about Quarto an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that unifies and extends the R Markdown ecosystem.

At the end of the meetup we will be hosting a Q&A session.